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THE LAGRANftE REPORT!*, .1
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11, 1M
WIVES OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS
Photo copyright. 1914, by American Press Association.
They ire shown lined up to get the allowance of about 10 rents a duy from lbe government while their hus
bands are fighting.
Farming
Chats and Comment
$1,000 Made
Off “Trash”
Mr. W. A. Hodnett of East Vernon
District is possibly in a position to
•open some of the Troup county far
mers’ eyes. While in LaGrange Sa
turday, ne stated: “I expect to make
a thousand dollars this year on noth
ing b ut trash from my farm, I have
found that I can’t depend on cotton
i for a living. I have about one hun
dred acres of my farm planted in cot
ton this year, moBt of this land ia rent
ed by negroes and was planted in
cotton by them. I will say now that
thia is more than twice as much of my
farm that will ever be devoted to cot
ton another year.”
When asked what he referred to ns
trash, Mr. Hodnett said: “Wood, fish,
water melons, eggs, chickens and
things of that kind. 1 have already
sold about $625 worth of such things
nnd expect to sell lots more.” For an
•example of wuys that money could be
'made, ho referred to one acre which
he had devoted to “Pride of Georgia"
water melons. Although about half
of those were seedless and no good,
Mr. Hodnett has already realized
$7T.70 from this small patch nnd
states that he still has more melons
for sale.
This prosperous farmer has cer
tainly come to the right conclusion
and here is hoping that the other
Troup county farmers will follow his
exnmplc. However there is one thing
that the IaGrange people will prob
able not agree with him, that is in us
ing the term of “trash" for chickens,
eggs, butter, etc.
Regulating the
Cost of Living
The effort of the United States
. government to regulate the high cost
of living by probing the high and
fancy increase of prices of foodsti^fs
recalls the fact that many govern-
\ incuts, even the ancient Romans, also
labored to this very end.
By means of the agrarian laws the
Gracchi endeavored to supply deserv
ing persons with grain oelow the
'market price; but these measures
were futile, for the decline of agricul-
' lure and the growth of capitalism
caused large numbers of tne people
to flock to the cities where tne in
creasing spirit of discontent was a
menace to society! Matters grew
worse under the empire, and Diocle
tian had the courage to issue an edic
attacking the evil of high prices, his
schedule covering nearly all the
articles which his subjects would have
occasion to purchase. The result of
• this legislation was that nothing was
.offered for sale, and the scarcity be
came so pronounced that the law wa
revoked from absolute necessity. Som
years later, the Emperor Julian mad'
a similar attempt on a small scale
He lixed the price of corn for th
people of Antioch by a royal decree.
As a result the holders of grain
hoarded their stock. To offset this
the emperor brought supplies of it
into the city from Egypt and sold it
at the legal price. The grain was
then bought ua by speculators and
Julian was obliged to acknowledge
his inability to defeat an immutable
economic law.
Even the drastic measures of the
* common law of England were of Httle
’avail in preventing the arbitrary in
crease of charges for food, though on
•occasions it was invoked for the
'punishment of the offender.
With these historial examples be
fore us, there is little encouragement
to be gained out of the federal pro
posal to check the increasing cost of
living during these war times. Deal
ers, wholesale as well as retail, have
too many adroit methods for evading
the law; so many, in fact, that the
consumer is practically helpless.
It is, of course, entirely possible
that some modern legislation may be
devised which will fit the emergency
and give relief to the people from
the commercial sharks, but it is prac
tically certain that there is now no
existing law applicable to the situa
tion.—Macon News.
Raises “Seedless
Watermelons”
Mr. W. A. Hodnett of East Vernon
District brought a seedless water
melon to The Reporter office Satur
day morning. He probably has the
honor of growing the first lot of me
Ions Af this kind.
This melon was small and displayed
a kind of a knotty appearance. When
it was cut, the meat was found to be
u whitish pulp and dry. This pulp
was also cut and disclosed regular
watermelon meat which tasted Just
'like the heart of any other melon.
Mr. Hodnett states that he pur
chased the seed in South Georgia and
plnntod them in the usual manner on
good oak and hickory soil on a one
acre plot of his land near the A., B.
& A. railroad. He sayH that about
half of the melons lay down flat on
their long sides. These have seeds
and Mr. Hodnett has already realized
$77.70 from their sales. The other
hnlf of the melons are in a “sit up”
position, resting on one end. These
represent the “anti-seed” party nnd
give the patch the appearance of a
military company which has just been
culled to attention..
Cattle Raisers
Encouraged
Atlanta, Sept. 10. (Special)—Presi
dent P. D. McCarley, of the Cotton
Seed Crushers’ Association of Geor
gia, last Saturday issued a circular
letter to the members of this organi
zation, which is composed of prac
tically every cotton oil mill man in
the state, urging them to extend a
line of credit to the cattle feeders in
their vicinity whereby these cattle
feeders may be encouraged to increase
their interest in the livestock industry.
He points out that this form of
co-operation will prove of inestimable
value, not only to the cotton oil mill
men and to the cattle raisers, but to
the state as well.
For several years this association
has lent its utmost efforts in the di
rection of encouraging the raising of
livestock, but this industry has not
been taken up with the activity that
it should be.
President McCarley states that the
present low prices prevailing for both
meal and hulls gives the oil mills and
the cattle raiBers the best opportunity
the south has ever known for putting
into practical effect the advice and
assistance so freely offered.
In concluding hiB address to the
members, President McCarley sayB:
“We would therefore earnestly re
quest that you give this matter your
very serious consideration, and let’s
help each other to find a market for
our products, by helping our feede
friends to make some money, and by
helping the state to save a great des
by producing beef here in Georgia.’'
- Black remarked: “A proposMen
tf » mine tor you Pro not
•i T-jea good thin*, 1 assure you."
1 Whits replied, "Well. 1 am not!"
” -JJpptBCOtt'SL
Advertising and
the Living’Cost
(Herbert S. Houston, in World’s
Work.)
The educational committee of the
Associated Advertising Clubs of
America has seen that a business
which in America calls for an ex
penditure every year of double the
cost of digging the Panama canal
must fully justify itself to the pub
lic. Naturally so vast a sum raises
the suspicion that it may have some
part to bear in the high cost of living.
Advertisers challenge this suspicion
and point to the fact that advertised
articles have maintained the same
price levels, despite the general ten
dency to higher levels, and they say
that this has been possible through
larger sales secured by advertising.
The educational committee is survey
ing this whole subject and it announc
ed at the recent convention of ad
vertising clubs at Toronto that dur
ing the coming year it would add to
its activities the work of a committee
that would seek to make all the pub
lic know how it is being served
through advertising.
The Chosen
People
Those who till the soil are the
chosen people.
Farming is as old as the human
race and is yet in its infancy.
Success is bound to come to the
farmer who plans while he plows.
No civilization has ever advanced
beyond its agricultural development.
No farmer is successful who thinks
more of his barn than he does rf
his home.
The development of the farmer him
self must precede the full develop
ment of the ground he tills.
The most beautiful fact ini the
farmer’s work is that everything he
plants is a lesson in faith.
The beBt farmer does not bother
about getting ahead of his neighbor;
his great business is to get ahead of
himself.
We must give to the people who
live on the farm the same educational
advantages for their children as those
of the cities enjoy.
The country clergy is an agency
of much potentiality because the ru
ral life movement is religious as well
as industrial and social.
There should be u social and an
industrial survey of every community.
The pastor, the teacher and the school
und church officials are they who
make such a survey.
In a recent survey of a community
in New England the average annual
income of 154 farmers who had a
common school education was $229,
while the average net income of 122
farmers of the same locality with a
high school education was $482 an
nually. This was worth to each far
mer who possessed it $263 each year.
The agriculturalists of Georgia will
occupy a more conspicous place hence
forth, especially for the next year
or two, particularly those who prac
tice diversification of crops. The men
who apply intelligence to their farm
ing methods, who study the teach
ings of the demonstrators and follow
the latest examples of scientific tilling,
will be those who rank with tne most
successful and the most prosperous
planters of the state—Macon News.
Differing Blood Corpuscles.
The crystals of the blood of a white
man are extremely small, measuring
less than one two-thousandth part of
an Inch In length and are sbuped rath
er like thin bricks. The blood crys
tals of a negro appear like thin red
plates, or long, thlu, flat bars, easily
distinguishable from those of a whits
Peanuts As
a Field Crop
C. E. Hoke, Oklahoma.
The Spanish peanut has achieved
a fixed place among the farm crops
of the southwest, where it is raised
as a feed crop to be used along with
£aftr, milo or feterita. This crop
was introduced into the southwest
many years ago, but attracted little
attention as a field crop until 1909.
According to Prof. H. M. Cottrell, the
Spanish peanut has been known to
thrive with an annual rainfall varying
from 13 to 55 inches and at an alti
tude ranging from sea level to 6600
feet. This crop stands drouth as well
as kafir, milo-and cotton.
If only a small area iH planted the
usual practice is to drop the nuts by
hand. There is a planter now on the
market, however, especially designed
for them. A single unshelled nut
should be dropped in each place and
the space between them should be
about 15 inches. This rate of plant
ing will require about one busnel to
the acre. The width of the rows
should be about the same as ior corn
or kafir. If there is plenty of mois
ture in the soil, the nuts should be
soaked in water for 25 hours before
planting. If the Boil is dry, however,
this should not be done as it will ruin
the seed.
Level Cultivation Best
The cultivation of the crop is prac
tically the same as for corn, cotton
or kafir. If a crust forms beiore the
plants come up, an ordinary spike-
tooth harrow may be dragged over
to break it up. The cultivation should
be shallow and frequent and should
continue up until the time that the
pods begin to form. Hilling up is
neither necessary nor desirable. Par
ticularly if it is dekired to make the
crop into hay, the cultivation should
be level, or otherwise it would be
difficult to cut and rake. The old
idea that the stems had to be covered
with dirt in places, in order to make
the pods set on, has been disproved
by recent knowledge.
When the vines begin to turn yellow
the nuts are nearing maturity, and
will soon be ready to harvest George
Bishop, a successful farmer In wes
tern Oklahoma, says: “Most of the
peanuts which have been grown in
the southwest, have been harvested
by hogs and for the present, at least,
this is undoubtedly the best plan.
Where the nuts are grown for market,
however, the vines are loosened up
by running the share of a turning
plow with the moldboard removed,
just deep enough to cut beneath the
peanuts. The vines and nuts are then
raked into windrows and in a day or
two, depending upon how quickly they
cure, they are put into stacks conven
ient for threshing. The practice of
first mowing the hay and then turning
the hogs in to harvest the nuts is the
one which seems the best plan for
the beginner. Recent tests have
shown that the hogs will make prac
tically the same gains when fed on
the peanuts alone as when turned on
n field from which the vines have not
been removed. Threshing is done with
a special peanut thresher and the
straw is saved for feed.
According to Prof. Cottrell, a stock
man in Texas pastured a large acre
age of ripe peanuts with hogs in 1910
and made n gain of 1023 pounds of
pork to the acre. In feeding trials at
the Texas station, it required less than
three pounds of peanuuts for each
pound of gain on pigs that weighed
from 40 to 50 pounds at the start.
At the Arkansas station, an acre of
ripe peanuts pastured by hogs made
1252 pounds of gain, while an adjoin
ing cornfield yielding 30 bushels to
the acre made only 436 pounds of
gain per acre on hogs. At the Alaba
ma station with corn charged at 70
cents a bushel, each pound of gain on
hogs fed corn alone cost 7.63 cents,
while the cost per pound when they
were fed corn and kept on peanut pas
ture ranged between 1.85 cents and
2.28 cents.—Southern Farming.
Thought for the Day.
Science Is nothing but trained and
organized common sense, differing
from the latter only as a veteran may
from a raw recruit, and its methods
differ from those of common sense
only as the guardsman's cut and thrust
differ from the manner In which a
aavage wields hia club.—Huxley.
“The goods which please are already
half sold,” runs a French proverb.
Q Our reliable goods have long pleased this
community because they combine the quali
ties of durability, utility, value and beauty.
E y es Scientifically Fitted. TAKE
CARE OF YOUR EYES; the Window to your Soul
Lehmann Jewelry Co.
LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co.
We are now prepared to make all kinds of castings from iron and
brass and to repair machinery of every description. Our foundry
is modern in every detail, being equipped with the latest machin
ery and appliances.
We have secured the services of workmen of long experience and
whom we know are in every way qualified to give perfect satisfac
tion.
Our machine shop is equipped with the latest machines and tools
and our workmen in this department are also capable of turning out
high class work.
COMMUNICATE WITH US IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN OUR
LINE. IT WILL PAY YOU
GOOD SERVICE AT REASONABLE PRICES IS OUR POLICY.
P. S. BRING ALL YOUR OLD IRON AND BRASS TO OUR
SHOPS. WE PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES.
LaGrange Foundry and Machine Co.
-:For Sale:-
The 15 acres of land known
as the Lakeland Park pro
perty in East LaGrange, has
been sub-divided and 142
building lots for negro dwel-
ings will be offered for sale
about Sept. 15. Interested
parties, apply to
R. L RENDER
LaGrange, Ga.
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